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Pamphlet 6096 Isaiah KC 24-2
By the way, the "asherah", from
whence we get Easter, is rated "X"!
In today's study of the 17th chapter of Isaiah, we are
going to see the burden (warning) to Damascus (Syria)
which is the second of seven burdens or warnings, as
in proclamations,
given to the cities and nations in concert with Israel's
deliverance
in the day the King of kings and Lord of lords returns
to this earth.
"Seven" is the number of spiritual completeness
and in like manner as the warnings to the "seven" churches
in Revelation chapters two and three
encompass all of Christianity, the warning to the seven
nations listed here apply to all the nations of the world.
That also makes sense because it is written in Rev. 18:3
that they all become "drunk of the wine of the wrath (indignation)
of her (Babylon's) fornication...",
which means they all fall and submit to
the one world system known as Babylon the great!
If you are fortunate to have a Companion Bible
you will find an outline in the structure listed on page 948
of the seven nations to which the oracles or proclamations
are given.
They are:
Moab
Damascus (Syria)
Ethiopia
Egypt
The Desert of the Sea (Babylon)
Dumah
Arabia
Also keep in remembrance God's promise and plan from
chapter 14:1 in that "
...the LORD will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land..."
and then all nations shall flow unto Zion.
It is at that time, which is during the
Millennium,
when truth and justice shall flow from Zion like mighty
rivers as the Word of God is taught to
and adhered to by all peoples and nations!
Then there shall be true peace on earth as the people
and nations are taught to "consider"
what brought about the destruction of not just one, but
two earth ages.
Let us once again review the history in advance that we
read about in Isaiah 14
concerning the desolator who made the world as a wilderness.
Isaiah
14:16-17
They that see
thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is
this the man that made the earth to tremble, that
did shake kingdoms;
All of the nations, such as those listed above along
with the true house of Israel, e.g. America, Great Britain, Canada, etc.,
are going to "consider" the lowlife serpent who elevated
himself as world ruler in order to be like the Most High!
[17]
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
wilderness, H4057 midba?r mid-bawr'
From H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture
(that is, open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication a desert;
also speech (including its organs): - desert, south, speech, wilderness.
destroyed, H2040 ha?ras haw-ras'
A primitive root; to pull down or in pieces, break,
destroy:
- beat down, break (down, through), destroy,
overthrow, pluck
down, pull down, ruin, throw down, X utterly.
Yes, the desolator, of whom the Assyrian was an historical
type, is coming to overthrow and breakdown the cities,
and "they shall be a ruinous heap"!
To that end, here is God's warning to Damascus, the capital
of Syria!
Isaiah
17:1
The burden
of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
and Israel a couple of burned-out pokers...
as in firebrands.
God's Word also gives record of the overthrow to document
that this spiritual slaughter is accomplished by the desolator,
the soon coming spurious messiah,
all we need do is check out
the type in the historical
records where we find that Damascus
was overthrown by the king of Assyria, Tiglath-pileser,
who also slew Rezin in 632 BC.
Remember we read about Rezin who made a protective alliance
with Ephraim and the son of Ramaliah
back in the 7th chapter of Isaiah, that chapter where
God also called the kings of Syriaf Damascus in 2 Kings 16:9.
2 Kings
16:9
And the king
of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against
Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and
slew Rezin.
Never forget however, that our Father is in complete
control
and that He is the one who sends the Assyrian as a rod
of chastisement in His hand!
Isaiah 10:5 "O Assyrian, the rod
of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation."
In fact, in Joel 2:25 God calls that great locust army
that shall come against our people to make the land (spiritually) desolate,
"His army"!
And once the whole world has been taken captive and spiritually
desolated by that great locust army,
with the exception of those servants of God who have
the seal of God in their foreheads,
Jesus Christ shall return and utterly smash and destroy
the Beast with its nations and cities
who have been spiritually laid waste
and they shall all awaken to their shame and despair
at the sound of that 7th Trump
when the King of kings and Lord of lords returns to establish
Zion!
Isaiah
17:2
The cities of
Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and
none shall make them afraid.
"Aroer" means "ruin" or "nudity of situation".
In other words, the cities are going to be as pastures
for grazing because they are going to be "laid bare"
and the people carried away captive in a state of confusion
(2 Kings 16:9)!
[3]
The
fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of
the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
The understanding of God's overall plan that we have
been reading about makes quite clear what is happening in these verses.
Again, Satan who is the spurious messiah (instead-of-Jesus),
of whom the Assyrian was a type (Isa. 14),
shall come and reign over the New World Order, which,
by the way,
his children (the kenites) have all but finished setting-up
for his entering in,
and all the nations of the world will become subject
to him.
So the fortress or stronghold of Ephraim who was the largest
of the ten tribes
and thus used figuratively to represent all 10 tribes
(even as America represents them today),
shall cease, as in be given over to the Assyrian.
On a deeper level, it is our "fortress", Jesus Christ
the Rock of our Salvation who is our strength,
that shall cease, as in be taken away by the false messiah.
That is the same as the "daily sacrifice" of Dan. 11:31,
which is our communion with Jesus Christ (our sacrifice),
being taken away!
This great apostasy happens in one day because our people
will begin taking communion with the false messiah
when he comes claiming to be God.
You "see", without Jesus Christ we have no fortress...
or atonement for our sins!
Psalm
18:2
The LORD is
my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom
I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
It is late in the season of the final generation
of the fig tree,
even as those bad figs and their evil anti-civil liberties
groups have been attempting to remove the Rock
from our midst and replace it with a rock of abomination.
Wake up dear Christian!
The signs of the times are all around us.
Some of you may have seen the article we posted on our
website of two rocks.
Deut. 32:31 "For their rock is not
as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges."
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It should be pretty obvious that much spiritual desolation
has already been wrought
in a nation who would sanction the left rock and forbid
the right Rock!
Isaiah
17:4
And in that
day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
Jacob is going to lose his glory to the New World
Order
and the false messiah as he is emaciated and wasted away
in the great famine of the last days that Christ foretold us about.
Of course the prophet Amos clearly explains that the famine
in the land in these last days is not for bread nor a thirst for water,
but for the hearing of the Word of the Lord!
Check it out in Amos 8:11-13!
To wit, you certainly don't hear much of Father's Word
taught today, do you?
Our schools are not even allowed to acknowledge God, nor
do they permit prayer to Him,
nor do they even call their concerts "Christmas Concerts"
anymore!
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the Rock of our salvation,
our fortress, and our daily sacrifice, is being taken away!
We are fast forsaking God in this nation and the consequence
shall be
that we shall be spiritually stripped clean down to our
dry bones,
which means there won't be much left in the valley of
dry bones (Ezk. 37) to harvest...
as the next verse declares.
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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth
the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
valley of Rephaim.
Though the Rephaim were the offspring brought about
by the union of the sons of God,
those fallen angels in Gen. 6, with flesh woman,
their name is used here symbolically to mean "the dead"
or "death".
And so we have a valley of death which is analogous to
Ezekiel's valley of the dry bones,
a spiritually desolate wilderness where the pickin's
are slim indeed!
Remember, unless one has the seal of God in his or her
forehead,
i.e. has the spirit of life in them which is simply the
truth of God's Word,
then that person shall have his or her spiritual clock
cleaned by Satan and his locust army
who appear as angel's of light but are really devouring
locusts.
Rev. 9:4 "And it was commanded them
that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in
their foreheads."
Those fruitful servants of the Most High who do have the
seal of God in their foreheads
shall remain spiritually alive and well right up to the
coming of harvestman!
[6]
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree,
two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in
the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
Thank God for the remnant who endure and are left
behind, for they shall be saved!
That is exactly what Christ said in Matthew 24:13 "But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
endure, hupomeno, hoop-om-en'-o,
Greek 5278; from Greek 5259 (hupo) and Greek 3306 (meno); to stay under
(behind), i.e. remain; figurative to undergo, i.e. bear (trials),
have fortitude, persevere :- abide, endure, (take) patient (-ly), suffer,
tarry
behind.
Those "remainers" (remnant) who remain true to the
Word of God
are the wise virgins who filled their lamps with that
rich "olive oil"
that is symbolic of the Spirit of God
and is obtained only by studying and absorbing the Word
of God
You "see", they shall not be shaken by the earthquakes
nor swallowed up in the great flood of lies and deception
in these last days.
And remember what Isaiah said in the very first chapter:
Isaiah
1:9
Except the LORD
of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
If it were not for that remnant, that "seed" who
are the sons and daughters of Acts 2
and the brothers and sisters of the churches of Philadelphia
and Smyrna,
i.e. God's elect, we would all be as Sodom and Gomorrah...
zapppppp!
So why is it that only the remnant will remain?
Well, as the next verse explains, it is because they look
to the Creator
(and to Zion that the LORD has founded)
and they give attention (respect) to the Holy One
of Israel
because they love Him and obey His commands.
John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep
my commandments."
Isaiah
17:7
At that
day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
You "see", God's elect already trust and rely upon
Him instead
of looking to the fortress of the great city and the
builders of the New World Order.
The growing entitlements in this nation, as we now (as
of this study) seek to add drug benefits to the senior citizen population
to be paid for by their children's labor, give rise to
the popular belief of the unwise that it takes a village,
a great city, to provide for the needs and wants of the
citizenry.
Welcome to the New World Order my friend.
The ever growing beast of expanding government will now
provide for "its children" from their cradle to their grave!
[8]
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or
the images.
God's elect do NOT go up to worship before the altars
nor participate in the worship of the "groves"!
Do you know what the "groves" are?
You should, because it is from the "groves" that we get
"quick like a bunny"
and "Ishtar's fertility eggs" to roll about the church
lawn!
Check out the word "groves" in your Strong's Concordance.
It comes from the same root word from whence we derive
"Easter"!
'asherah, ash-ay-raw', Hebrew 842; or
'asheyrah, ash-ay-raw'; from Hebrew 833 ('ashar); happy; Asherah (or Astarte)
a Phoe$nician goddess; also an image of the same :- grove. Compare Hebrew
6253 (`Ashtoreth).
By the way, the "asherah", from whence we get Easter,
is rated "X"!
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To learn more
about when our Lord was crucified see pamphlet #7014
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